.TH FAAC 1 "2007-10-11" "1.26" "Free Advanced Audio Coder"

.SH NAME
faac \- open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B faac
.RI [ options ]
.RI [\-o\  outfile ]
.I infiles
.RI ...
.PP
.RI < infiles >
and/or
.RI < outfile >
can be "\-", which means stdin/stdout.

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B FAAC
is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder, it is licensed under the LGPL license.
Note that the quality of 
.B FAAC
is not up to par with the currently best AAC encoders available.

.SH FEATURES
.TP
* Portable
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* Reasonably fast
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* LC, Main, LTP support
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* DRM support through DreaM (optional)

.SH OPTIONS
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.BR \-q\  <\fIquality\fP>
Set default variable bitrate (VBR) quantizer quality in percent (default: 100).
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.BR \-b\  <\fIbitrate\fP>
Set average bitrate (ABR, lower quality mode) to approximately \fIbitrate\fP kbps.
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.BR \-c\  <\fIfreq\fP>
Set the bandwidth in Hz (default: automatic).
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.BR \-o\  \fIX\fP
Set output file to \fIX\fP (only for one input file).
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.BR \-r
Use RAW AAC output file.
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.BR \-P
Raw PCM input mode (default: 44100Hz 16bit stereo).
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.BR \-R
Raw PCM input rate.
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.BR \-B
Raw PCM input sample size (8, 16 [default], 24 or 32bits).
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.BR \-C
Raw PCM input channels.
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.BR \-X
Raw PCM swap input bytes
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.BR \-I\  <\fIC\fP,\fILF\fP>
Input channel config (default: 3,4 [which means Center is third and LFE is fourth]).

.SH MP4-SPECIFIC OPTIONS (if built with MP4V2)
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.BR \-w
Wrap AAC data in MP4 container (default for *.mp4 and *.m4a).
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.BR \-s
Optimize MP4 container layout after encoding.
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.BR \-\-artist\  \fIX\fP
Set artist to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-writer\  \fIX\fP
Set writer to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-title\  \fIX\fP
Set title to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-genre\  \fIX\fP
Set genre to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-album\  \fIX\fP
Set album to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-compilation
Set compilation
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.BR \-\-track\  \fIX\fP
Set track to \fIX\fP (number/total)
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.BR \-\-disc\  \fIX\fP
Set disc to \fIX\fP (number/total)
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.BR \-\-year\  \fIX\fP
Set year to \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-cover-art\  \fIX\fP
Read cover art from file \fIX\fP
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.BR \-\-comment\  \fIX\fP
Set comment to \fIX\fP

.SH DOCUMENTATION
.TP
.BR \-\-help
for short help on using FAAC.
.TP
.BR \-\-long-help
for a description of all options for FAAC.
.TP
.BR \-\-license
for the license terms for FAAC.

.SH AUTHORS
.B FAAC
was written by M. Bakker <menno@audiocoding.com>.
.PP
This manpage was written by Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian\-unofficial.org>
for the Debian Unofficial project (but may be used by others, of course).